Re: Problem with hdparam - TPA

Default User said:

Richard Harter wrote:

On 11 Apr 2008 15:53:31 GMT, "Default User"
<defaultuserbr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

There's no reason for the person to quote the whole message to post
a thanks. He could trim all but a small slice to establish
identity, then correctly post under that.

He could have, but he chose not to, just as you could choose not
to be a bandwidth wasting public nuisance but instead choose to
be one.

You are entitled to your opinion. You could also have, long ago, put in
a filter for the "-TPA" that I so thoughtfully add to the subject line.

*plonk*

Of course you're right that the top-poster shouldn't have done it - he
should have snipped and context-posted. Nevertheless, killfiling
reasonable people like Richard Harter rather than listening to what they
have to say about the subject is not itself a reasonable act. Neither is
it reasonable that a significant fraction of your contributions to this
newsgroup seem to consist entirely of net-copping.

I suggest that you look through your Sent directory at, say, the last 100
articles you've posted to this group, and just work out what percentage of
them contain actual technical content. You may be alarmed to discover just
how low the number is, and just how high is your proportion of net-nit
articles.

If you are, as I continue to believe, a reasonable fellow, you might not
follow the above advice but you'll at least stop to think about it.

Alternatively, you could always plonk me, too. There is no dishonour in
sharing a killfile with Richard Harter.

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